Before watching the video clip, I am sure that Inter and other clubs fans have lectured us that year! No one is perfect, but we always look ahead to improve, not otherwise!! It is also natural that we - Milan Fans - are going to lecture you for quite a long time, IMO. However, the substance you need to look at, is not from us. It comes from the neutral fans. Don't try to fix a mistake with another mistake! :nono: Here is an article by a neutral fan! I hope we all learn a good lesson.
See you next seasn. Or maybe not!
By Goal.com:
What A Shame!!
4/13/2005 6:54:00 PM
Goal.com South American correspondent Juan Arango takes issue with his compatriot, Inter’s Colombian star Ivan Ramiro Córdoba, who said of the abandonment of last night’s Champions League game: “The reaction of the fans was more than comprehensible after Merk didn’t give us the goal.”
I have developed a reputation as venomous when I write a piece, but let me tell you that what Ivan Ramiro Cordoba said after what happened the other night in Milan makes me want to go all out on him.
For him to “justify” the actions of a group of ignorant racist people, who have given Italian football a black eye, is preposterous. For him to applaud made my stomach churn. When he said that his hand-clap was “instinctive” I can understand the heat of the moment. Although when he sees the inferno on the field caused by his fans, he is still complaining about the disallowed goal. What are you thinking? For goodness sake, there was a player that was burned and the damage could have been worse, and you are thinking about a goal? Sorry Ivan, but as much of a fan as I am, there are more important things in this world than football, and the health and safety of my peers is a much more important priority.
This is the captain of the Colombian national team saying this? This is a man that is known for his tenacity on the pitch? What does this say to the rest of the world? That he condones this? That it is ok to try to burn a goalkeeper with fireworks if a goal is disallowed? If this is what represents my country, I would prefer never to see them in a World Cup ever again. Call me old-fashioned, but a player wearing my country’s colors does this it goes against everything that the hard-working people of Colombia have been trying to achieve for the past five decades. Cordoba knows of this type of violence, it has touched us all back home in one-way or another. His actions are reprehensible. I hope I am wrong. I hope that he said it out of anger or some thing was lost in the translation. But if all this is true, and it were up to me, I would never want to see him with the Colombian national team ever again. We as a country received too many black eyes, to have a player illustrate ignorance to its highest degree on the world stage.
Juan Arango